My Personal Offline Backup System For The Mac
Posted by Admin | Filed under GDrive Alternatives
In researching GDrive alternatives, I have tried several services for backing up important files on my MacBook Pro and I thought I would share my set up with you.
Now I will start by saying that it is a system that has only been in place for a couple of days but it seems to be working to plan.
The longest-installed backup system on my Mac is Mozy. You just tell Mozy which folders you want to back up and let it go. At intervals of your choosing, Mozy will check for any changes and make incremental backups. You can also set limits on the amount of bandwidth that Mozy uses.
I have always been happy with Mozy and never had to interfere with it much. It just works.
I recently added Dropbox to my backup regime when they added a Mac client. I like Dropbox a lot but one limitation I found was that it only backs up the contents of the Dropbox folder, you cannot selectively backup separate folders in other locations on your machine.
But after reading this Lifehacker post, I came upon a tool called SymbolicLinker which allows you to create symbolic links to your other folders and place them inside your Dropbox folder. Dropbox will then happily backup thos extra folders and the files in them.
From the comments in that post, I added Syncplicity to the toolbox and so far it seems to be the best tool for one huge reason. It seems to be the only tool that lets me Back Up my Mobile Me drive.
This potentially changes the way I work. Instead of using local files and folders, I can work from my Mobile Me drive and have these changes incrementally backed up to Syncplicity.
Tags: dropbox, gdrive, Mobile Me, mozy, syncplicity
